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" To all whom t may concern `i Be it'known that I, GEORGE W. EDGCOMB,

of the townof Lima and county of Lagrange, in the State of Indiana, have invented a new and `Improved llVashing-'lVIa-` `chine; and I dohereby declare that the fol- "lowin is a full andexact description there:` `"o`f,re` erence being hadto the accompanying drawings,making*afpart` of this specification, `Figure l` beingla top view ofthetub `with the rubbing-disk removed; Fig. 2,'a

.y "vertical transverse `section through vthe cen` l fthe ligures.

ter of the washing-machine and Fig. 8 a sec-` tion in the linefP P of Fig. 2.

.)Sim'lar letters vindicate like parts all The nature of my invention consists in the ""fpeculiar arrangement of correspondingly shaped rubbers O, and I,1placed on the botthe rubbing disk`JG,1between which.` the clothes` are to! be washed; viz: The rubbers 1 are Vof a half roundtapering shape, with rounded ends, and aresecured upon the boti lthe disk `;Gr,1in alternating radial positions,

tom H, ofthe tub,ianfd on the under side of tom of the tub, and upon the under side of i the broadfend of one being placed between @two narrowfends of the others, f and vice` versa, as shown 1n* the drawings. i

` I make `useof `a round tub, which maybe `made in any well known or usualmanner..

i ThebottomII, of the tub should be of sufficient strength to rmly support thestand- `ardfIqthe disk G, is` suspended to the operating lever M, by means of the legs K, K.

The operating lever M', is steadied by means of an aperture in its center, which is received upon` an elongated journal at the upper end `of the standard L. *The disk Gr, is lifted `water, the diskyis returned to its place in U the tub, and a reciprocating or a rotary moi i tion is imparted toit until the' clothes have been suiicientlyacted upon. c

" The eect of thealternating arrangement ofeach series of the `tapering rubbers O, I,

is to keep the clothes in such a position that a "they will beI constantly and eliiciently acted fupon by the rubbers, andprevent them from being crowded against lthe sides, or into the center of thetub.` Thefaces of the broad `ends of the ribs, secured to the vibratingspeceaeion of Letters Patent No. `121658, `dated. Aprn e, 1855.

broad ends of the ribs on the bottom of the tub, as will be perceived bythe drawings.

i Now it is self evident, that as the disk G, is rotated, when the face of the large end of one of 'its ribs O, passes over the large end of a rib I, on the bottom. of the tub, the clothes will be forced toward the smaller ends of the two ribs at the same time that they are forced forward, and that the next action upon the clothing` will be `between the parallel surfaces of the said moving rib O, and the next rib I, in succession, caused by the large end of the said rib O, being brought over the smallest endl of a rib I; and that the next action upon the clothing will be caused by the large end of the said rib O, being brought over the large end of a rib I, which will force the clothing toward the smaller ends of the said ribs, and in an opposite direction to the action rst above mentioned. Thus it will be seen, that `the `clothing ywill first be thrown outward, by the large end of a moving rib coming over the large end of a stationary rib, then be acted upon by the parallel surfaces of a moving rib and a stationary rib, as the large end of the moving rib comes next over the small end of a stationary rib, and then the said clothing will be thrown inward when the large end of thesaid moving rib comes over the large end of thenext stationary rib in succession ;-making three different and distinct kinds of action upon the clothing.

I am aware that a wash-board has been made of a conical form, having its surface higher above the bottom of the tub at the circumference than at the center, with radial ribs, of, the form of a half cone, attached to it and to the bottom of the tub, with their broadest ends outward, and with spaces between them of such width and depth as to receive the clothes between them in such a manner as to turn them over, has` been used before in the washing machines of Joel Wisvner, patented November 8th, 1853, and therefore I do -not claim such as my invention, for the reason that I deem that I have made `a marked improvement thereon; and there- The alternating radial arrangement of the ment in Washing machines signed and Wittaperiiighrubbers O, aldkLGlripondthe undr nessed this 17 th day of October, 1854. side o t e actuatin is an upon t e bottom H, of the tb, substantially in the GEORGE WV' EDGCOMB' EL S] 5 manner and for the purpose herein set Witnesses:

forth. A. R. WOOD,

The above specification of my improve- J. C. HOLMES. 

